golden polypody
n 1: tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated
for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds;
sometimes placed in genus Polypodium [syn: serpent fern,
rabbit's-foot fern, Phlebodium aureum, Polypodium
aureum]
2: mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping
rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout
North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia [syn: common
polypody, adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair,
sweet fern, Polypodium vulgare]